From 8930efe7871d47882fccd7772f7176c502a2a294 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: SuperCowProducts <143343957+SuperCowProducts@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2025 10:15:45 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update README with Fedora installation instructions (#1610) Added instructions for Fedora users to install Tesseract language packs. --- README.md | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 761bd6fa..4dc30623 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -84,12 +84,12 @@ For everyone else, [see our documentation](https://ocrmypdf.readthedocs.io/en/la OCRmyPDF uses Tesseract for OCR, and relies on its language packs. For Linux users, you can often find packages that provide language packs: ```bash -# Display a list of all Tesseract language packs -apt-cache search tesseract-ocr # Debian/Ubuntu users +apt-cache search tesseract-ocr # Display a list of all Tesseract language packs apt-get install tesseract-ocr-chi-sim # Example: Install Chinese Simplified language pack + # Arch Linux users pacman -S tesseract-data-eng tesseract-data-deu # Example: Install the English and German language packs @@ -99,6 +99,12 @@ pkg_add tesseract-cym # Example: Install the Welsh language pack # brew macOS users brew install tesseract-lang + +# Fedora users +dnf search tesseract-langpack # Display a list of all Tesseract language packs +dnf install tesseract-langpack-ita # Example: Install the Italian language pack + + ``` You can then pass the `-l LANG` argument to OCRmyPDF to give a hint as to what languages it should search for. Multiple languages can be requested.